The lawsuit filed by the owner of famed Carnegie Deli against her estranged husband and his alleged mistress is getting messier than the Midtown joint’s overstuffed sandwiches.
In new court papers, Sandy Levine calls Marian Levine’s fraud suit against him a mere “act of revenge by a woman scorned.”
Marian, 63, the daughter of the famed deli’s founder, Milton Parker, has accused her hubby of renting out an apartment the couple owns at a rock-bottom rate to his mistress, Penkae Siricharoen.
The suit — which is separate from the warring couple’s ongoing divorce — says Sandy charged his paramour only $975 a month for a one-bedroom above the Seventh Avenue eatery in 2011, when the market rate was at least $3,000.
But Sandy, 71, says that his wife was aware that Siricharoen was living in the apartment because her dad had given her the rent-stabilized place in the 1990s, court papers say.
“But for the extramarital affair, Marian had no objection to the terms of the lease renewal,” he claims in papers filed on Jan. 15.
Sandy, who used to jokingly refer to himself as MBD — “Married Boss’s Daughter” — says he had “no legal duty to disclose the affair” to his wife.
The couple, once featured in a reality-TV show called “The Family Pickle,” split in 2012 after 21 years of marriage.
Siricharoen, 66, a Thai immigrant, is also named as a defendant in the fraud suit. She denies the affair and wants the case dismissed. In court papers filed Jan. 16, she says Marian “waged a relentless war against me.”
“While I’m sorry that Marian’s marriage to Sandy has foundered, I am entitled to remain in the apartment, which has been my home for more than 17 years, and to be free from ongoing harassment,” Siricharoen said.
Attorneys for Sandy and Marian did not return calls for comment.